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Economic growth or the environment: A cross-country study on the foundations of pro-environmental preferences

Damaraju, Meera LU (2021) NEKP01 20211
Department of Economics
Abstract
Cross-national surveys have pointed out that environmental concern has been decreasing across the globe over time due to a focus on economic growth. While cultural and socio- demographic factors determine the degree of a lack of environmental concern, preference measures namely risk, patience, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, altruism and trust have found to be determinants as well. This thesis explores which of these core economic preferences drive environmental concern at a regional level by using variables from the Global Preferences Survey and the Joint 2017 wave of the European Value Survey and World Values Survey. Negative reciprocity is found to be significant. This paper contributes three elements to the literature: how... (More)
Cross-national surveys have pointed out that environmental concern has been decreasing across the globe over time due to a focus on economic growth. While cultural and socio- demographic factors determine the degree of a lack of environmental concern, preference measures namely risk, patience, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, altruism and trust have found to be determinants as well. This thesis explores which of these core economic preferences drive environmental concern at a regional level by using variables from the Global Preferences Survey and the Joint 2017 wave of the European Value Survey and World Values Survey. Negative reciprocity is found to be significant. This paper contributes three elements to the literature: how preference measures have an impact on pro-environmental concern at the regional level, negative reciprocity being a significant measure for environmental concern and a regional key that connects two different cross - country surveys. (Less)
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author
Damaraju, Meera LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKP01 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Behavioural Economics, Global Preferences Survey, Environmental concern, Preference variation
language
English
id
9056872
date added to LUP
2021-07-05 13:21:35
date last changed
2021-07-05 13:21:35
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  abstract     = {{Cross-national surveys have pointed out that environmental concern has been decreasing across the globe over time due to a focus on economic growth. While cultural and socio- demographic factors determine the degree of a lack of environmental concern, preference measures namely risk, patience, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, altruism and trust have found to be determinants as well. This thesis explores which of these core economic preferences drive environmental concern at a regional level by using variables from the Global Preferences Survey and the Joint 2017 wave of the European Value Survey and World Values Survey. Negative reciprocity is found to be significant. This paper contributes three elements to the literature: how preference measures have an impact on pro-environmental concern at the regional level, negative reciprocity being a significant measure for environmental concern and a regional key that connects two different cross - country surveys.}},
  author       = {{Damaraju, Meera}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Economic growth or the environment: A cross-country study on the foundations of pro-environmental preferences}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}